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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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“As we are mocked with art” (5.3.68): The Winter’s Tale comme anatomie de la réception

Sillages Critiques, 2011
As in other Shakespearean late plays, The Winter’s Tale, the question of art and the theatre is central, here especially in terms of reception and interpretation, then of hermeneutics.
Pierre Iselin
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Shakespeare and Language [PDF]

, 2010
Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies.
Hope, Jonathan
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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A tale of two Londons: locating Shakespeare and Dickens in 2012 [PDF]

, 2015
Long held as Britain's 'national poet', Shakespeare's role in the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad confirmed his status as a global icon in the modern world.
Kirwan, Peter, Mathieson, Charlotte
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Insights From Academic Research on IFRS 9: A Review of the Literature

Australian Accounting Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9 Financial Instruments replaced International Accounting Standard (IAS) 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement, effective 1st January 2018. This study synthesises empirical research on IFRS 9, focused on the three phases of the standard‐setting process: classification and ...
Zeting Zang, Humayun Kabir, Tom Scott
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“To Make Dark Heaven Light:” Transcending the Tragic in Sintang Dalisay

Multicultural Shakespeare, 2022
Directed by Ricardo Abad and choreographed by Matthew Santamaria, Sintang Dalisay—a Filipino adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet—is often lauded for its use of the igal ethnic dance of the Sama-Badjau, a Muslim tribe located in the southern region
Anne Nichole A. Alegre
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Spanish as the language of translation in Spain and Latin America: Shakespeare’s retranslations as a case in point. [PDF]

, 2019
A short description of the linguistic decisions taken by three Argentinian translators of Shakespeare (Rafael Squirru, Miguel Ángel Montezanti and Carlos Gamerro) with respect to the language of translation (Spanish).
Zaro Vera, Juan Jesús
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Reading Shakespeare's Stage Directions [PDF]

, 2017
Suggests that we should consider the stage directions in Shakespeare's early texts, particularly the 1623 Folio, as snippets of narrative or free indirect discourse, rather than as clues to or for ...
Emma Smith
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